Reflect

Reflect Re*flect" v. i. 1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams. [1913 Webster]

2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return. [1913 Webster]

Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. [1913 Webster]

We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]

All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought. --Reid. [1913 Webster]

As I much reflected, much I mourned. --Prior. [1913 Webster]

4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. [1913 Webster]

Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty. --Swift. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate; ponder; muse; ruminate. [1913 Webster]